National Scrapbooking Week #3

We are half way there!!!!! National Scrapbooking Day is this Saturday, May 3rd!!! So make some plans to come join Kelly and I at my house on Saturday to do 4 12x12 pages for only $6!!! We have some spots left and believe me you do not want to miss this mini event being held at my house from 1pm to 6pm. Just RSVP and you can come anytime between 1pm and 6pm to complete your pages. We are also having specials that day and some great games for those of you that do come by!!!! Remember we are having all Scrapbooking Kits and Albums at 20% off!!! And if you place an order that day (or get me an order) your name will go into a "special" drawing for a FREE 12X12 NATURAL LINEN POST ALBUM to be given away!!! There of course is another "special" drawing for those of you that do attend on Saturday. We are keeping this FREEBIE hush hush until that day so don't miss out!!!!!

National Scrapbooking Week #2

Here is another scrapbook page I recently did. Sorry for the poor picture but it is so hard to photograph these layouts!!! I so wish I had a huge scanner and it would be so easy!!!!

We still have seats/kits available for our mini event being held this Saturday, May 3rd at my house so make sure you RSVP soon!!! We are also having a HUGE sale that day!!!! We are offering all the scrapbooking kits and albums at 20% off. There is also a "special" drawing for a FREE 12x12 NATURAL LINEN POST ALBUM for anyone that places an order. So get me your orders so your name will go into this special drawing.

Have a great day!

National Scrapbooking Week!!!

To kick off National Scrapbooking Day on May 3rd this Saturday I am going to post a scrapbook layout I have done everyday this week leading up to Saturday when I reveal our four pages we will be doing this Saturday at my house. There are still kits available if you are interested in doing four 12 x 12 pages for only $6 this Saturday at my house. Remember you only have to reserve your kit and come anytime between 1-6pm. I hope to see you there!!!! We are also reserving kits for those of you that want one but can not make it to my house that day. Everything will be cut and stamped for you all you have to do is put it together and add your photos and you are DONE!!! See this post for more information and a sneak peak to one of the pages you will get to do.

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A fellow blogger, MacKenzie, has started doing sketch challenges and I thought I would try my hand at her first sketch. I really liked how this card turned but there is a story behind it!! A good friend of mine was on the fence about purchasing this stamp set, Always. Well I showed it to her today and let her play with the images with some black ink and white cardstock. She immediately fell in love with it!!!! See she loves simple, elegant images and when she was stamping these images in black on white cardstock she fell in love!!!! So she ordered this set right then!! When I got home I thought I would play around with this set again too. I pulled out my Close to Cocoa ink and Designer Series Prints paper and started playing with MacKenzie's sketch. This is the card I came up with and I am dedicating it to my good friend Amy.

I hope you all like it!!!! Amy, this one is for you!!! Enjoy!!

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I just recently found this new awesome blog called Great Swaps Girls and they are starting to post challenges. This one is a color challenge they posted Monday. You had to use the colors Certainly Celery, So Saffron and Regal Rose. First thing was I knew I wanted to play with this stamp set, Always. It is one I just got with my Sale-A-Bration rewards from Stampin' Up! and I just love it!!!! I think this one went together pretty well. Let me know what you think!!!

TAKE CARE!!

Baby Photo Albums

Aren't these just the cutest things ever?? I found these little photo albums at our local "Big Lots" for only a $1!!! Can you believe this awesome find I found? They actually are Hallmark albums listed for $10 when Hallmark was selling them. Anyway I used Stampin' Up's new rub ons and matching ribbon to decorate the outsides.

I think they turned out so cute!!!! Who wouldn't want one of these to show off their new bundle of joy??

My newest softball player

Isn't she the cutest thing ever?? My baby, Jordan who is now 6, started T-ball last night for the first time. She was so cute out there running the bases and running after the ball!!! I just had to share this picture of her I caught while she was on base waiting for one of her fellow playmates to hit the ball. Soooo cute!!!!!

Color Inspiration #6

This is Kristina's color inspiration #6 she posted on her blog the other day and boy was this one a HARD one!!!! I have not worked with Sahara Sand yet and it was HARD!!!! This is what I came up with:

Do you like? I did use Sahara Sand as the base for the card. I then took a strip of Wild Wasabi cardstock and used my corner rounder to make the scallops along the side of the strip. I then layered a piece of Pumpkin Pie pattern paper out of the Bali Breeze Pattern Paper pack on top of a piece of So Saffron cardstock. Using my small and large star punches I punched out some stars and layered them on top of another piece of Sahara Sand cardstock. Stamped my saying in Pumpkin Pie ink and finished the card with a piece of Pumpkin Pie 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon. Gotta love ribbon!!!!

Life is Good, again!

I told you I was going to play a little longer with this stamp set before I headed off to work!!! I am just loving this stamp set with the Basic Gray but this time I pulled out my new Flower Fusions and layered them on top of each other and attached them together with a Rhinestone Brad. Can you say BLING!!!! Love it!!!

Have a great day!!!!

Life is Good!

Don't you just love this stamp set?? It is so much fun to play with. When the new catalog came out in January this stamp set, Text & Texture, was on my wish list right away and yes, I ordered it right away but I just now got it out and started playing with it!!!!! I wanted to try something a little different and do a "simple" card. I really like how this one turned out!!! I used Whisper White for the base card and stamped my image in Basic Gray and tied a piece of the new Basic Gray Taffeta Ribbon to the card. Soooooo yummy!!!!! I thought it needed a little color so I pulled out my Boho Blossoms punch and punched my flowers out of scrap cardstock I had laying on my table and used a silver brad to attach them together. I adhered the flower set to my card using our Mini Glue Dots. I think I am going to play a little bit longer before I head out to work!!!!!

Scissor Bling!!!!

Gotta LOVE BLING!!!! My girlfriend, Nicole, makes the most awesome jewelry and just started making these scissor blings for all your different sized scissors. Go check out her blog and view all her awesome jewelry and you just might end up getting some for yourself!!!! If you do let her know I sent you her way!!! By the way she also has FREEBIES she gives away each month on her blog!!!! What a great gal!!!

Beate's WSC44

Beate does alot of different challenges on her blog and this one is her weekend sketch challenge "WSC44" from this past weekend. I thought I would start doing some of the challenges out there in blog land and maybe in Splitcoaststampers land too. When I do decide to do a challenge I will always upload it here and link to the blog/website I found it on. I thought this sketch was neat so I wanted to try it.

This is what I came up with. Do you like? I needed to make a belated birthday card for someone so I pulled out a hostess level III stamp set called Older & Wiser and used some of the Bali Breeze Designer Series Paper. The ribbon is the Old Olive 5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon. I colored the turtle in with my Stampin' Pastels. I might even use this sketch for a scrapbook layout too. I will upload it if I decide to tackle that next.

Have a great day!!!

What a huge success!!!

Our card making day is now over and it turned out great!!!! We had thirty ladies join us at the church to make their cards and we still have ten kits to deliver. I believe it turned out awesome and everyone seemed to have a great time!!!!

Kelly and I before the event started!!

This is the table set up we used.

It really worked out great to do stations!

Quick picture of everyone waiting to get started and seated at their stations.

We will be doing this again soon!!!!!

Getting ready for our card making day!!

What a BIG process!!! Kelly and I have been working on this day for a while now and yesterday we spent most of the day and well into the night (can you say midnight??) getting ready for the card making day that will be going on today at 1:00pm. We have 40 kits packed with 30 ladies coming to the church to do their 20 cards and 10 kits we have to deliver to ladies that could not make it today. I can't wait for it to start, it is going to be so much fun!!!! I will be posting all 10 cards on my blog and Kelly will be posting them on her blog too for everyone to see. I hope everyone will have a good time today and enjoy all the great cards we have planned!!!

Pun Fun!!

Isn't this card too stinkin' cute?? I just love this stamp set and coordinating jumbo wheel!! This stamp set, Pun Fun, and it's coordinating jumbo wheel are part of the Free Wheelin' Promotion Stampin' Up! is running until the end of this month. Purchase this stamp set and get the coordinating jumbo wheel FREE. It can't get any better than that!!!! Oh, wait a minute it does!!! Stampin' Up! is also doing this with five other stamp sets and their coordinating jumbo wheel too. Check out the flyer on my sidebar to see what other stamp sets are included in this offer.

I Stink You're Sweet!

I HAVE A WINNER!!!

I want to thank everyone for coming by my blog and posting a comment on my blog candy give-a-way!!! This was so much fun and to tell you the truth I DID NOT make this card, it was a card on the display boards at a Regional I attended in Louisville, KY last year. I really liked this card and wanted to see what everyone thought Stampin' Up! used on it to make it. I do know that the stamp set was Enjoy Every Moment and the Polka Dot Background stamp. Thanks again for playing and now for the winner of my FREE Stampin' Around Wheel and Handle is.......






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Mandy said...
very cute color combos...i love anything with brown!!! colors used i am guessing are choc chip, close to cocoa, certainly celery, so saffron, and ruby red?
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Congrats Mandy!!!! Please email me your address so I can get your goodies mailed out to you!!!! Thanks again and I did use random.org to obtain my number/winner.

BLOG CANDY ALERT!!!!

**I am going to keep this post at the top of my blog until the time frame is over, so don't forget to leave a comment to get your name in the drawing to win the FREE goodies!!!!! Scroll down for newer posts.

That's right I am offering blog candy again just because it is soooo much fun and I just LOVE giving stuff away FREE!!!!!! All you have to do is post the recipe to this card (the stamp sets and colors you think were used here and don't worry if you are wrong you are still entered into the drawing just for leaving a guess/comment) and also tell me which stamp set in the WHOLE catalog is your FAVORITE stamp set. Leave your comment by April 18th at noon and I will post the winning number/comment that afternoon. What are you playing for you ask. Well how about the matching roller stamp and handle???? The matching roller stamp and handle will be the BLOG CANDY. So you know what that means~~one of the stamp sets in the recipe for this card has a matching roller!!!!!!

HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!

Earthquake in our neck of the woods???

That's right we were woken up at 5:37 a.m. to an earthquake!!!! Can you believe it?? We don't have earthquakes in our neck of the woods, right? WRONG!!!
Our bed started shaking and my husband and I jolted straight up in bed and my husband was like "what the heck??"!!! He got up and went into the kitchen because we had left the sliding glass door open (screen door-nice weather) to see if a tornado was coming or if it was just windy out. The plates in our hutch in the kitchen was going crazy and he said there was no wind and it was still nice out. He came back to bed and I told him (half a sleep) that is was probably an earthquake. What was I thinking!!!! We don't have earthquakes!!!! Well I guess we do because when we did get up this morning it was all over the news that we had had a 5.2 earthquake. I can't believe it!! All is okay with us and our area. I hope everyone else it doing fine and doesn't have any major damage.

Color Inspiration #5

Translated into Stampin' Up! colors:Certainly Celery, So Saffron, Bashful Blue, Close to Cocoa

Kristina has an AWESOME blog and she does these color inspiration challenges where she posts a picture and translates the colors into Stampin' Up! colors. She sets a deadline for everyone to post a comment and a link to our own blog with our creation on it. This time she is only going to post a link to 20 different blogs/galleries so others can visit to view that person's work and get inspired to create!!! Well I thought I would try this challenge for the first time (since this is her 5th one) and boy was it really hard for me!!!!! As you can see I ended up making three different cards because I was just not happy with mine. I think I decided I really like this first one I did (which I did last). What do you think??


This card uses the stamp set Just Celebrate out of the Occasions Mini. It is one of my new ones that Mr Brown just delivered. I also used the prints designer series paper in Bashful Blue (hostess level 1 Pints Pack), So Saffron, Close to Cocoa. The ribbon is our 5/8" Grosgrain in Certainly Celery, the Boho Blossoms punch for the little flowers and brads.


This card uses the stamp set called Pretty Amazing. It was one that Mr Brown brought me too!!! The rest is the same as the above card and the card below.



On this card I used the Taffeta Ribbon in Bashful Blue. I tied it into a jumbo brand onto the three layers of punched out images from the Designer Label, Large Oval and Small Oval.

Enjoy and have a great day!!!!